What Heaven Means To Me

[sythyry]

The word "Heaven" is not a technical term of art; it means a variety of things. What does it mean to you?

[Poll #1610914]

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[draconis.livejournal.com]

Just to be more awkward:

Social structures in a proper heaven are rather more complicated by the larger differential of divinity (what with everything from crab lice to creator gods wandering about)

Clothing in a proper heaven is variable between being the same as non-heavenly places and the garments of status / function as accorded those with some degree of or proximity to divinity.

Work, in a proper heaven, is partially based on the economy of the heaven-state and partially God's Work, obviously the two will overlap. Or be at odds.

Food in a proper heaven is whatever you can grow or afford but is largely. Depending on the (meta)physical nature of the heaven, 'grow' might mean some pretty weird things. Soul cabbages, for example, could be grown from the lives of call centre workers.

Toilets in a proper heaven are just as offensive as elsewhere but are only there for making prurient jokes about rather than having to be used.

(I think my ideas about heavens are largely influenced by Garth Nix.)